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New Goal: Tame Wednesdays

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Today was another crazy Wednesday. It was a perfect storm of the usual entropy of new student intakes, the one and only copy machine in the building breaking sometime between afternoon GED classes and evening ESL classes, and a preventable scheduling mix-up that left me short a teacher.

Honestly though, it was far from a disaster. My new students got enough attention, my teachers got one worksheet per class via the scanner, and my Advanced class (the center of so much bad luck with their lessons!) got a decent if not elegant lesson.

I’m happy that everyone got what they needed. Still, I’d like to limit the chaos in the future. Some things I can do:

Take a few extra moments whenever I update the schedule to ensure accuracy, and ask volunteers to quick double-check it (it’s online)

Look for a regular intake volunteer (I had someone briefly, and it was awesome)

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2 thoughts on “New Goal: Tame Wednesdays”

Make up intake packets ahead of time – individual folders that have all the needed forms in them so you can grab a folder and go.
Make copies for classes a week in advance, so a copier breakdown is just a delay instead of a problem.